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(Tor Teen 978-1-250-31731-5, $15.99, 288pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, April 13, 2021) A young-adult SF novel and the first in the Unstoppable trilogy, centering around a sleeper-agent alien teenager on Earth whose part in an intergalactic war is bigger than she thinks.  “It’s properly, wickedly exciting – I devoured it! How Anders packs so much power and energy into her prose is astonishing. These characters – and the adrenalin, the sheer excitement- will live on in my head long after the last page. Glorious. And the most amazing thing of all is her imagination – to think o...

A literary historian, Hoogenboom was the Jesse Ball DuPont Fellow at the National Humanities Center and postdoctoral fellow in the Eurasia Program of the Social Sciences Research Council for her book, "Noble Sentiments and the Rise of Russian Novels" (University of Toronto Press, 2018), on the sentimental ideal of duty in noble culture and novels by men and women writers, most of whom were nobles. She is a resident associate 2017–18 at the National Humanities Center for her new project "Noble Rot: Corruption, Civil Society, and Literary Elites in Russia." Co-editor of two collections of ess...